lapnitnelav

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by lapnitnelav 5y ago
Yeah sure let's bury our head in the sand and pretend all forms of media will thrive while only selling subscriptions but so far, we've seen how it went for the older ones (newspaper, radio, tv ...) Or we can acknowledge that adve
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by lapnitnelav 5y ago
What's the solution? If anything, the proliferation of ad tech junk and 15MB of various ad-related things is probably better than just that 1MB of only Google Ads scripts, no? Or are we going to talk about how online advertising has be
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by lapnitnelav 5y ago
You can add Spain and Italy trailing behind.
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by lapnitnelav 5y ago
No, I have been hanging around in Discord for a while now and I've run quite often into issues with connection issues for specific servers (I guess some clusters going down) and them being OOO for a while. Mumble on the other hand tend
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by lapnitnelav 5y ago
On top of what has already been said, I found Mumble to be a better voice com tool than Discord, sound quality is better, shortcut mapping more extensive, etc ... Discord having the slack-like features, video streaming and social networking
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by lapnitnelav 5y ago
The other way around as C. Clarke's work is younger than this one. Also reminds me of Barjavel's 'The ice people' which has a large golden sphere buried deep under the ice in Antarctica https://en.wikipedia.or
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by lapnitnelav 5y ago
Oh boy, if you have never worked for a bank, you would be inclined to believe they have this shit down to a T after being such early adopters of tech and all the risks they undertake given their roles. Turns out that it's best to ignor
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by lapnitnelav 5y ago
Reminds me a lot of my uncle that had sort of taken over my grand-parent's farm and never really moved away from there. I can definitely empathise with his mindset, especially after many years in the city. Though being from a culinary-
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by lapnitnelav 5y ago
No, actually you can do both (and more). Advertising is throwing darts at the board with your eyes closed, whenever it lands somewhere on the board and nets you point is good enough for most. Typical conversion rates are under the 1% thresh
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by lapnitnelav 5y ago
Fascinating video as always from Jonathan. Definitely highlights something I've always felt, which is that we're really making life complicated with all those tools and processes that are less than ideal. I get the feeling busines
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by lapnitnelav 5y ago
That's because the companies winning bidds on your 'views' are targeting you because of your apparent persona, i.e middle aged man/woman in tech -aka middle class ++ with disposable income, rather than what you are inter
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
Hello, I'm the $50 / month customer. Not an internet business per say, mostly used in the context of processing and storing data + internal apps. Do is great value, although not the cheapest. They need to double down on the useful
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
What about actual open (to an extent granted) platforms as opposed to those proto publishers / platforms like FB / TW / ... ?
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
Better change your name to Bobby Tables now ;-)
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
Inutile donc indispensable. Have to admire the dedication you've put into that. Us casual line-riders spent a few hours at best and moved on onto the next shiny thing and there's there people like you that went above and beyond. A
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
That fancy attire really doesn't look that great : http://www.geocities.ws/cityofottawainfo/celeb_m.htm Proof that you can't buy taste. For everything else, obviously there's Mastercard.
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
This so much. One of the main reason the big players dominate the Web (in the marketing space) so much is because SaaS is easier to handle (for most people) than having to deploy and maintain your infra. if you streamline the process so tha
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
1) Google, thanks to its acquisitions / strategies is actually all over the web, and has a hand in every single part of the ad tech stack (outside of walled gardens). It's problematic 2) As a consequence of #1 (all those Google An
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
As long as you have a (sub) domain you can use and a bit of free time, you could go to your favourite cheap 'cloud' provider, i.e. Digital Ocean, Scaleway, ... Spin up a cheap instance (DO has a preconfigured image ready to go), g
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
Laughs in Linus Torvald, Joe Armstrong and Guido van Rossum, just off the top of my head
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
Yelp tends to be yet another scam in the same vein. It's fair to leave them out. And even though your points are right, I am not sure those providers should charge as much. It's killing the golden goose in the long term, especiall
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
Not if you hijack the camera directly* :) [1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/creativetech_tensorflowjs-bod...
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
Le soleil ne se couche jamais sur la République.
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
We have those in Dublin. Seems to be working mostly ok and pretty cheap to use. A 20€ yearly membership and your rides are free if they last less than 30 minutes. Which means free for most folks.
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
It also doesn't solve the issue that ads are trying to address in the first place, which is to promote your business. If you outright ban ads, they'll come back in a sneaky way, see influencer marketing / product placement in
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
I am particularly saddened by how Europe has handled the situation. Not that I can blame the EU because I'm pretty sure it couldn't have done (as in imposed) anything there and it clearly highlights the deficiencies of being somew
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
Just had a wee look at Daft and the desperation starts to be quite obvious, with the prices being slashed and some offering 2 months rent free. Good. May they collapse swiftly.
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
Would fastmail (or the likes) be an ok service to use for a low volume Saas to send the regular stuff, like creating an account, resetting a password and such? Or am I asking for trouble?
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
I didn't really experience the 08 crisis directly but the aftermath for sure as I got my degree in 10 and the market in my home country was really bad at that time. Had to go back to my less than stellar family for a year and a half, a
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by lapnitnelav 6y ago
Thanks for sharing that Harvard's course. The cost benefit analysis part reminds me a lot of some of the comments you see here (and elsewhere) with regards to Covid-19 and the economic shutdown of societies. Quite timely.

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